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Sudoku fans might love or hate this: The updated Google Goggles phone app can solve even the most difficult of the numeric puzzles in seconds. The phone's camera takes an image of the puzzle and sends it to Google, whose central servers make quick work of it and send back the completed image, explains the Telegraph. The main purpose of the app, however, is to scan bar codes and print ads. The servers return info to help shoppers find bargains.

I this like just skipping the sex and getting right to the cigarette? I don't smoke anymore and I didn't cheat when I played first person shooters and I don't cheat at sudoku. I solve the game and then, ah, the satisfaction. Then, a beer.

NlCK

Jan 11, 2011 1:10 PM CST

That optical character recognition software sounds fairly nice. As a programmer, I hope that possibilities that "the cloud" affords don't start holding us back as much as capitalism already has. Sharing is caring. People will still want/use your cloud and search engine. For a company that has a motto of "Don't be evil," why aren't you releasing more of your technologies in an open source manner? Are you looking to collect more information? Are you looking to monopolize your position? Either way, greed helps slow down our collective intelligence. I guess that it's good that we can, at least, benefit from it. I guess the rant wasn't really about Sodoku because I don't play it. Please accept our nearly monotone 'thank you,' Google. o_O